2020 Junior Faculty Fellow: Emma Lejeune awarded Career Development Professorship
We are thrilled to announce that our 2020 Junior Faculty Fellow, Emma Lejeune just received the David R. Dalton Career Development Professorship. Emma is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering. She received her doctorate and master’s in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University and her bachelor’s degree from Cornell […]
BU’s Faculty To serve on Advisory Committee for The Federal Government
The federal data strategy is used by the Federal Government to create a 10-year vision on how to accelerate the use of data to support their mission, promote democracy and serve the public while using security measures to protect privacy and confidentiality. The federal data strategy focuses on establishing an integrated data infrastructure with […]
Researching COVID-19 in the Media
A team of researchers from the Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Media (AIEM), which is housed in the Hariri Institute for Computing and is part of the Artificial Intelligence (AIR) Initiative, is studying how media outlets from different countries are covering the COVID-19 pandemic. In an article published recently in BU The Brink, Lei Guo, Assistant Professor of Communication and […]
Two Hariri Faculty Fellows Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
In a recent article in BU Today, two Hariri Institute for Computing Research Fellows were recognized for their impact and expertise in their areas of focus. In the article, Jean Morrison, BU Provost and chief academic officer was quoted as saying, “In diverse fields across the University, these faculty members are having a demonstrable impact in […]
Two BU Faculty with Hariri Institute Connections Promoted
In a recent article in BU Today, two Boston University faculty with active connections to the Hariri Institute for Computing were recognized for their leadership in their areas of focus. In the article, Jean Morrison, BU Provost and chief academic officer was quoted as saying, “They are forging multidisciplinary collaborations to discover solutions for some of […]
Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Studies COVID-19 and It’s Effect on Housing
Recently an article in BU Today featured the ongoing crisis of housing in this time of COVID-19. Twenty percent of Americans are out of work, but the rent and mortgage are still due at the first of the month. Moreover, only 26 percent of American cities are providing funds to help families stay in their […]
Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Leads Team at NEIDL
Researchers at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) have been awarded 1.9 million dollars in new funding from the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR), to investigate and study COVID-19. The Brink magazine published an article outlining the activities of the NEIDL in response to this new funding and highlighted the different research teams and […]
Junior Faculty Fellow Battles With Android’s Malicious Malware
By Hariri Institute Staff An analysis done on more than a million samples of Android malware prove how malicious apps are developing malware coding that is hard to trace and identify. Despite in-depth research, malware in Android is still a major concern. The biggest challenge that researchers face is dealing with repackaged malware. Gianluca Stringhini, […]
Vijaya Kolachalama’s Algorithm Makes Advancements In Alzheimer’s Detection
Different people have different symptoms, and so it is hard to get a precise diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. It is even harder to predict the likelihood of an individual afflicting the disease. Vijaya Kolachalama, an Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine and Junior Faculty Fellow and Research Fellow at the Hariri Insititute for Computing, was featured […]
Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow Defne Abur Wins NIH Grant
Defne Abur, Doctoral Student in the BU Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences as well as a Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow, has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders (NIH/NIDCD) for her work concentrating on “Motor phenotypes of Parkinson’s disease (postural instability […]